Regulation 8 Saving for entitlement to gratuities

after paragraph (1) the following paragraph:–

“(1A)

For the purpose of calculating the maximum amount of benefit payable under paragraphs (1)(b) and (1)(c) there shall be disregarded, in calculating the length of service of a person whose contractual hours in any week are fewer than 15, any service which would have become reckonable service if he had on 31st December 1993 made an election under regulation B3(1) or regulation B4B, unless before 31st December 1993 he had attained the age of 50.”; and

in paragraph (2) at the end of sub-paragraph (g) the following:–

“or a failure to elect under regulation B3(1) unless the employee–

(i)

was employed by a scheduled body on 31st December 1993;

(ii)

had attained the age of 50 before that date; and

(iii)

was not immediately before that date a pensionable employee by virtue of the fact that his contractual hours were fewer than 15”.